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1.		Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype (signal.org)
		794 points by Aissen on Jan 11, 2018 \| 331 comments
2.		Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO (bloomberg.com)
		435 points by richiezc on Jan 11, 2018 \| 270 comments
3.		YC Bio (blog.ycombinator.com)
		338 points by jameshk on Jan 11, 2018 \| 144 comments
4.		House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Privacy Limits (nytimes.com)
		312 points by aaronbrethorst on Jan 11, 2018 \| 172 comments
5.		Spectre and the end of langsec (wingolog.org)
		264 points by robin_reala on Jan 11, 2018 \| 190 comments
6.		Stellar Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-Level Consensus (2016) [pdf] (stellar.org)
		301 points by bushido on Jan 11, 2018 \| 61 comments
7.		MoneyGram Signs Deal to Work with Currency Startup Ripple (wsj.com)
		238 points by ggurgone on Jan 11, 2018 \| 118 comments
8.		Sourcegraph Server 2.4: free, powerful search for private code (sourcegraph.com)
		188 points by azmenak on Jan 10, 2018 \| 82 comments
9.		Pineapple Fund Offers $4M Matching Grant to MAPS for MDMA Research (maps.org)
		293 points by anythingnonidin on Jan 11, 2018 \| 65 comments
10.		Turning brain signals into useful information (economist.com)
		169 points by aficionado on Jan 11, 2018 \| 65 comments
11.		‘Hypatia’ Stone Contains Compounds Not Found in the Solar System (popularmechanics.com)
		215 points by curtis on Jan 11, 2018 \| 67 comments
12.		Show HN: TensorFlow-Resources – Organized and Useful Resources about TensorFlow (github.com/astorfi)
		152 points by irsina on Jan 11, 2018 \| 11 comments
13.		How Neglecting Minorities in Medical Research Has Led to Deadly Outcomes (hdphealth.com)
		171 points by blaurenceclark on Jan 11, 2018 \| 141 comments
14.		Filecoin 2017 Q4 Update (filecoin.io)
		156 points by hanklazard on Jan 11, 2018 \| 71 comments
15.		SAFE Network: a decentralized data storage and communications network (safenetwork.org)
		94 points by lwhsiao on Jan 11, 2018 \| 12 comments
16.		Induction of self awareness in dreams through low current stimulation (2014) (nature.com)
		181 points by MichaelAO on Jan 10, 2018 \| 95 comments
17.		Bitcoin Can Drop 50% and China Miners Will Still Make Money (bloomberg.com)
		195 points by sharjeelsayed on Jan 10, 2018 \| 174 comments
18.		OpenSSL wins the Levchin prize (openssl.org)
		94 points by kardos on Jan 11, 2018 \| 29 comments
19.		Building a Distributed Log from Scratch: Scaling Message Delivery (bravenewgeek.com)
		130 points by tylertreat on Jan 8, 2018 \| 1 comment
20.		Show HN: CodeOwl – Organize your notes, todos, and code snippets in one place (codeowl.io)
		130 points by charbz on Jan 10, 2018 \| 64 comments
21.		South Korea justice ministry prepares to ban cryptocurrency trading (reuters.com)
		206 points by dlau1 on Jan 11, 2018 \| 137 comments
22.		Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention (locusmag.com)
		183 points by af16090 on Jan 11, 2018 \| 63 comments
23.		What the Four Color Theorem Can Teach Us About Writing Software (alexkudlick.com)
		201 points by magoghm on Jan 11, 2018 \| 54 comments
24.		Learning Tree-Based Deep Model for Recommender Systems (arxiv.org)
		95 points by Matfyzak on Jan 11, 2018 \| 10 comments
25.		Writing a C Compiler, Part 5 (norasandler.com)
		183 points by luu on Jan 11, 2018 \| 5 comments
26.		Today is the fifth anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death
		709 points by saaronm on Jan 11, 2018 \| 82 comments
27.		Using Yelp Data to Predict Restaurant Closure (towardsdatascience.com)
		105 points by yarapavan on Jan 11, 2018 \| 21 comments
28.		Attack of the Week: Group Messaging in WhatsApp and Signal (cryptographyengineering.com)
		160 points by dankohn1 on Jan 11, 2018 \| 34 comments
29.		William James and the philosophy of pragmatism (neh.gov)
		69 points by benbreen on Jan 11, 2018 \| 17 comments
30.		Simcoin – A Docker-Based Blockchain Simulation Framework (github.com/simonmulser)
		105 points by simonmulser on Jan 11, 2018 \| 22 comments
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